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MUMBAI: Of the 1.24 lakh candidates who appeared for JEE Advanced this year, 26,456 have qualified for entry into the Indian Institutes of Technology . The number of those who qualified is 695 less than last year. With two new IITs — Palakkad and Tirupati — joining the ranks, the number of seats available is 10,006, 200 more than last year. While the JEE-Advanced results are scheduled to be declared to candidates on Thursday morning, the IITs led by organising institute IIT Bombay issued a statement late on Wednesday evening.

NEW DELHI: The rapid warming in the Indian Ocean is weakening the monsoon, particularly over central India where agriculture is still mostly rain-fed, a study by meteorologists at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology shows. The weakening trend in summer rainfall during 1901-2012 was also observed over the centraleast and northern regions of India, along the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna basins and the Himalayan foothills. This will include states of Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh , Jharkhand and Uttarakhand.

MUMBAI: In an effort to strengthen Indo-Russian ties, the university communities of both the countries on Friday entered into a Memorandum of Interest (MOI) to establish a foundation for the formation of the Russian-Indian Association of Institutions of Higher Education. Devang V. Khakhar, director, IIT Bombay and President of the Russian Rectors' Union VA Sadovnichiy, on behalf the universities' community, signed the MOI in the presence of President of India Pranab Mukherjee in Moscow.

BENGALURU: Heralding a second wave of drone-making in India, a few startups have advanced to commercializing the brain that controls these remote-controlled flying robots. Making drones these days is akin to assembling Lego blocks, which could take a day or two. But getting the pieces to work in harmony takes a couple of years - precious currency for startups. To that end, aerospace startups such as NavStik Autonomous Systems, Edall Systems and Aero360 are building software and hardware solutions, plug-and-play units that could condense research and development time by a couple of years.

GUWAHATI: What is expected to give fillip to "Make in Northeast India" campaign of the Government of India, Indian Institute of Packaging (IIP) will set up a centre in Guwahati. Union ministry of Commerce and Industry has sanctioned Rs 5 Crore for setting up of the centre. IIP has got six bighas of land from Assam government in Amingaon in the vicinity of Guwahati for setting up of the sixth Centre after Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai, Hyderabad and Bangalore. Director of IIP, Dr N.C Saha told ET, "The centre will have training programme for youths, industry personnel.

COIMBATORE: Tel Aviv University in Israel is exploring to have collaboration in education, agriculture and industrial sectors in India, where there was a lot of potential, a top university official has said. Since starting looking at East from the traditional West for the last five to seven years, like India and China, the university has found tremendous potential for collaboration in these fields to have tie up between institutions, particularly student and faculty exchange programmes, Joseph Klater , President, Tel Aviv University, told reporters last night here.

KOLKATA: Three premier institutions of IIT Kharagpur, IIM Kolkata and Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) Kolkata, have come together for the first time to offer a joint course in business analytics. Starting from this session, the Post Graduate Diploma in Business Analytics (PGDBA) will allow students the rare opportunity to become students of all the three institutions at the same time and study one semester at each of them. Professor Sudeshna Sarkar of Computer Science and Engineering department at IIT-KGP said the two-year full-time residential diploma programme is aimed at creating business analytics professionals by giving students cutting-edge inter-disciplinary educational experience.

NEW DELHI: Almost a year after it came to power, the Modi government is in the final lap of approving its first substantial education legislation. ET has learnt that the HRD ministry dispatched the Indian Institutes of Management Bill, 2015, to the Union Cabinet on March 11. "The proposed law is expected to come up for Cabinet approval before the budget session of Parliament resumes on April 20," said a senior ministry official. The IIM Bill , 2015, aims to empower the 13 premier B-Schools to award degrees instead of diplomas to its students at the end of the two-year MBA programme.

SINGAPORE: A leading diamond company in Singapore plans to increase research and development (R&D) collaboration with universities and technical institutes in India, Singapore and the US. IIa Technologies Pte Ltd, which has an R&D collaboration with Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, the Cornell University in New York , Rutgers University in New Jersey, and MoUs with Singapore's Nanyang Technological University and National University of Singapore, is now in talks for an MoU with America's Arizona State University.

NEW DELHI: In its bid to promote entrepreneurship in the National Capital Region, the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi's Entrepreneurship Development Cell will be conducting a placement programme for students, across disciplines, and which is being touted as the first of its kind in India. EDC-IIT Delhi has brought on board some of the country's top startups, a list that includes, News Corp-backed real estate portal PropTiger , TouchTalent , an online marketplace for creative talent, and video-based platform Frankly.me , which could potentially hire close to 300 students during the course of the job fair, scheduled to be held later this month at the IIT campus.